Howard Cable

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Name = Howard Cable


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Born = December 15, 1920
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Occupation = Composer, Arranger
Instrument = Piano, Clarinet, Oboe
Genre = Classical, Wind Ensemble

Howard Reid Cable (born December 15, 1920 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a conductor, arranger, music director, composer, scriptwriter, radio and television producer.

Biography

Howard Cable received an Associate diploma (ATCM) from the Toronto Conservatory of Music in conducting and bandmastership 1939. He is also a recipient of an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts (DFA) degree from the University of Lethbridge in 2002. Cable studied piano, clarinet, and oboe, and played in the Parkdale Collegiate Institute orchestra under Leslie Bell. While leading a dance band, the Cavaliers, 1935-41 in Toronto and at southern Ontario summer resorts, he studied at the Toronto Conservatory of Music with Sir Ernest MacMillan, Ettore Mazzoleni, and Healey Willan. He also studied with John Weinzweig in 1945.Cable composed and arranged the original theme for the "Hockey Night in Canada" television broadcast, "The Saturday Game" which opened the broadcast from 1952 until 1968. His arrangement of Dolores Claman's "The Hockey Theme", which replaced his own composition in 1968, is the standard version, has been called "Canada's Second National Anthem". His Royal Conservatory arrangement of "The Hockey Theme" for piano is one of the best selling pieces of sheet music in Canada.

Musical Works

Choir

* Anne of Green Gables (SSA)
* Up on a Rooftop (SATB)

Wind Ensemble/Concert Band

* Newfoundland Rhapsody (1956)
* Quebec Folk Fantasy (1953)
* Snake Fence Country (1954)